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White Rock, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bremond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76629. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Petteway quadrangle.

White Rock within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

40 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of White Rock between 2006 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3017
12 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT/FLORIDA RD
11 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAITE RD
10 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUNN RD FIRE
24 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service82220192
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVITERA SAND RD.
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVITERA SAND RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Petteway2.6 miles7
Headsville4.2 miles7
Bald Prairie6.5 miles10
Bremond7.5 miles7
Willow Creek7.8 miles7
Nesbitt8.7 miles7
Hogg8.8 miles7
Owensville10.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380771. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.